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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Passed Feb. 13,
1822.
May pass ac-
counts—to
have effect.

CHAPTER 153.

An act for the relief of Ann Key, Administratrix of P. B. Key-
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the said Ann Key, be, and she is hereby authorised and empowered
to settle and pass, in the orphans' court of Washington county,
district of Columbia, all such accounts touching the estate of her
deceased husband, as she is now bound by law to pass and settle in
the orphans' court of Montgomery county. And the said accounts
when passed as aforesaid, shall have the same effect and credit in
this state as if passed in the orphans' court of Montgomery county;
and it shall not be necessary for her to settle any other or further
accounts, or make any other returns to the said orphans' court of
Montgomery county; but all such accounts and returns shall hence-
forward be made and passed in the orphans' court of Washington,
count)', in the district of Columbia.

Passed Feb. 13
1822.

Power to cease
—vested in le-
vy court.

CHAPTER 154.

An act for the relief of the Poor of Worcester county, being sup-
plementary to the act entitled, An act for the relief of the poor of
the several counties of this state.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the office of the present trustees of the poor for Worcester
county shall cease and be at an end on the first Monday of July
next, and that the appointment of the trustees of the poor of said
county, from and after the first Monday in April next, be vested
in the levy court of said county.

Levy court to
appoint trus-
tees.

2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Worcester
county shall be, and they are hereby authorised and required, at
their meeting in April next, and at their first meeting in the month
of April in each succeeding year thereafter, to appoint seven dis-
creet and proper persons qualified agreeably to the provisions of
the original act to which this is a supplementary act, and of this
act, to be trustees for the poor of said county.

Certificates of
appointment
to be delivered
—penalty for
non perform-
ance of duty.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk
of said levy court, within five days after such appointment, and
within the like time after any future appointments to be made in
virtue of this act, to make out and deliver to the sheriff of said
county, a certificate of the appointment of each of the said trus-
tees so appointed or to be appointed, endorsing one of the said
certificates for each of them respectively; which said sheriff shall,
within six days thereafter, deliver one thereof to each of the said
trustees respectively; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the se-
veral trustees so appointed and notified of such appointment, and
who shall accept thereof, under the penalty imposed by the said
original act, upon any person appointed a trustee for the poor in
virtue of the said act for wilfully refusing or delaying to take upon
him the duties of the said office, to meet on the first Tuesday of
July next ensuing such appointment, and on the first Tuesday in
May in every year thereafter, except prevented by sickness or
other unavoidable accident, and in such case, as soon thereafter as
the disability shall be removed, at the court-house of the said coun-
ty, and qualify in the manner prescribed by the original act to which
this is a supplementary act, and thenceforward to proceed in the

Proviso.

execution of the duties of said office; Provided nevertheless, That